Size

Site: 120,000 sq. ft.
Built: 170,000 sq. ft. / 15,794 sq. m.
Units: 135

Year

In Progress

Client

MBTA, City of Boston

Partners

Nuestra Comunidad CDC, Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH)

Portrait of David Saladik
David Saladik
Senior Principal
David Saladik

David Saladik

Senior Principal

David Saladik is a Senior Principal overseeing MASS’s international health portfolio. Having joined MASS in 2008 during the design of the Butaro District Hospital, his work over the last decade has been aimed at leveraging the built environment to improve health outcomes as well as engage and empower communities. He has spearheaded MASS’s expansion into new geographies focused on long-term health systems strengthening, establishing new offices in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Monrovia, Liberia.

David currently co-leads MASS’s largest office in Kigali, Rwanda with more than 80 architects, landscape architects, and engineers. Notable recent projects for which he has served as Principal-in-Charge include the Samajik Health Science Institute & Research Centre, a 520-bed teaching hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Norrsken Kigali House, an incubator for social entrepreneurs in Kigali, Rwanda; and the development of health facility standards with the Ministry of Health of Lagos State.

He has taught design studios at Northeastern University and Roger Williams rethinking primary care health centers to maximize positive social impact and resiliency. In parallel to this research, he led the design of the Family Health Center in McKinney, Texas - MASS’s first built US healthcare project.

Project Team

David Saladik, Nadia Perlepe, Caroline Alsup, Emily Goldenberg, Emma Colley, Chris Scovel

Collaborators

AOR: The Architectural Team
MEP: The Architectural Team
Landscape: The Collaborative
Civil & Transportation: Howard Stein Hudson:
Lighting:
Zoning: Klein Horning
Permitting: Bevco Associates
Geotech & Environmental: Tech Environmental
LEED Standards: ClearResult
Costing: Bilt-Rite
Surveyors: Feldman Land Surveyors
Marketing: Proverb

MASS Design Group is partnering with local Community Development Corporations, Nuestra Comunidad and Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH), to design transit-oriented, mixed-income housing in Mattapan.

Mattapan Mixed Income Housing, storefront

Today, many in Mattapan are concerned that some of what makes Mattapan attractive is at risk. As Boston’s housing market has exploded, affordability is now beginning to limit housing and economic options for residents in Mattapan. As it welcomes new investment, the Mattapan community needs to find ways to harness this interest to preserve and strengthen the neighborhood.

Mattapan Mixed Income Housing, river street elevation

MASS conducted a series of workshops with the community, revealing the diverse history and physical and cultural assets of Mattapan. MASS responded with a design that seeks to tackle gentrification by transforming this underutilized site into a mixed-use development that provides community services and affordable housing opportunities to local residents.

The housing will accommodate the full spectrum of family structures and socio-economic realities in Mattapan.

Mattapan Mixed Income Housing, community space

In addition to ground floor retail and public space, MASS designed over 135 units of housing and the surrounding landscape, connecting the broader Mattapan community to the newly completed Neponset River Greenway through improved bicycle and pedestrian access.